Last week Tombuntu’s server received a much-needed upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04. Tombuntu launched in 2007 hosted on my home server running Ubuntu. In 2008, I moved it to a Linode VPS running Ubuntu 8.04. Support for Ubuntu 8.04 ended back in April, so it was definitely time for an upgrade. Other than some security issues, […]

I recently purchased a new solid state drive (SSD) to replace my current hard drive (HDD). Since SSDs work so much differently than HDDs, it’s worth while to make some optimizations in Ubuntu for them. SSDs are much faster than HDDs, but have a limited number of writes before they wear out. This makes balancing […]

GNOME has launched an alpha of the GNOME Shell Extensions website. Like Firefox, GNOME Shell allows extensions to modify and extend the user interface. The site allows you to browse and install extensions written by third parties, but reviewed by GNOME before being made available. There are already many extensions to bring back elements of […]

Since my last post about finding a graphical Git client for Ubuntu, I’ve been using the excellent gitg. But here’s four more that I’ve come across since then, most recommended by comments on the previous post: qgit, as the name suggests, uses the QT GUI toolkit. qgit is a gitk-style interface for viewing revisions. Before […]

The screenshot tool Shutter has been updated to version 0.88, adding upload support for many more services, including Dropbox. Shutter offers advanced screen capture modes, a built in image editor, image editing plugins, and the new upload plugins. The new upload plugins seem to be very well implemented. To upload to Dropbox for the first […]